Germany's aims in the First World War

This professor's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book to come out of Germany since the war. It had already forced the revision of widely held views in Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War 1, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other.

German imperialism: from great power policy to world power policy -- Germany and the outbreak of war: the miscalculation on British neutrality -- 1: 1914-1916 -- In expectation of a Blitz victory: from Bethmann Hollweg in class -- The promotion of revolution: means and ends -- Popular pressures: publicists, societies, parties and princes -- The war aims policy of the Reich's leaders, 1915: from depression to the claim for hegemony -- The war aims policy of the Reich's leaders, 1916: feelers for a separate peace in west and east -- The objectives of war aims policy, I: Vassal states, a Germanic north-east and economic integration -- Germany and the United States: submarine warfare and the Belgian question -- War aims programmes: Germany and her allies, November, 1916 to March, 1917 -- 2: 1917 -- A Hindenburg peace or a Scheidemann peace? War aims and internal policy -- Maintenance of Germany's war aims programme: Parrying Austria's desire for peace -- Germany and the new Russia: the promotion of revolution and attempts to make a separate peace -- War aims in the July crisis of 1917: change and continuity -- Michaelis and Kuhlmann: renunciation in the west? -- The re-shaping of war …